Category: Cyberschool Webpage

UQ’s Academic Scholarship Program

Published: Wed, 2012-10-10 09:16 by Pauline McLeod

UQ's Academic Scholarship program aims to reward the achievements of outstanding school leavers and gap year students. A significant number of scholarships are awarded each year. If you are a high-achieving student and you are completing Year 12 in 2012 (or you completed in 2011 and you're on a gap year) then you are encouraged to apply.

A minimum of $100,000 in scholarship funding will also be reserved for applicants who have experienced educational disadvantage in one or both of the following areas: Financial hardship, Geographic isolation. Click here for more details.

What's a Library Database?

Published: Fri, 2012-09-14 15:02 by Pauline McLeod

This video animation from RMIT is aimed at first year undergraduate university students but also has applications for secondary school students.

It can be viewed via Youtube or Vimeo

School history Queensland State Archives

Published: Fri, 2012-06-15 14:49 by Pauline McLeod

Queensland State Archives holds many resources within its collection to assist researchers interested in school history:

• locating their own school admission details
• organising a school reunion
• compiling information on the history of a school
• finding teacher records.

Brisbane Writer's Festival - Word Play Tickets Now on Sale

Published: Fri, 2012-06-15 14:54 by Pauline McLeod

Word Play, the wonderful program for young readers, writers and illustrators in grades 4-12 is now on sale.

You can book your early bird tickets until Friday 22 June and it really is best to get in quick - these sessions and workshops sell like hotcakes!

The tickets are available for both schools and individuals so, parents, why not bring along your young readers? Word Play is a stimulating and educational program that will inspire your young people and help them continue to develop an appreciation for the ideas and creativity that reading and writing bring to their lives.

Find out more about Word Play and download the program.

Find out how to book.

The ORBIS website uses modern technology to model ancient world travel costs. How Many Denarii From Roma to Londinium By Ox Cart in January?

Published: Fri, 2012-06-01 14:02 by Pauline McLeod

This is a fascinating website for teachers and students of history.

This interactive model created at Stanford University calculates the time (in days) and expenses (in denarii) for travel by various modes (foot, pack animal, ship, and caravan) between major cities in the Roman Empire. By simulating movement along principal Roman roads, navigable rivers, and sea routes, it reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity. Click here to access.

Select the 'Mapping ORBIS' heading to set some parameters.

Thanks to Sarah from Research Information Services for passing this on to Cyberschool.

Smarter use of home devices

Published: Mon, 2012-05-28 09:40 by Pauline McLeod

This article in The Sydney Morning Herald this morning 28 May 2012 raises some interesting issues for schools with regards to students BYO electronic devices to school. The article can be accessed here.

Friends of Fryer Event: "Closer to Stone" with Simon Cleary 13 June 2012

Published: Wed, 2012-05-23 14:02 by Pauline McLeod

All are welcome to hear author and UQ Alumnus Simon Cleary speak at a Friends of Fryer event about his most recent book Closer to Stone.

Date:	Wednesday 13 June 2012
Time:	12.00 noon for 12:15pm start
Where:	Library Conference Room
	Level 1 Duhig Building
	UQ St Lucia Campus
Cost:	Gold coin donation
RSVP:	Monday 11 June 2012
E:	c.hale@library.uq.edu.au
T:	3346 4328

IFLA Releases Background Paper on e-Lending

Published: Wed, 2012-05-23 09:27 by Pauline McLeod

We have been receiving many requests from Teacher-Librarians about issues relating to e-books and e-lending and the implications this has for School Libraries.

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has drafted a background paper on digital lending.

The paper attempts to:

Provide an overview of the issues relating to eBooks in libraries;
Summarise the current positions of publishers in both the scholarly publishing and trade publishing sectors;
Summarise the differences in the way that academic/research libraries and public libraries address the issue of digital collections;
Address the legal context for eLending and library principles that must be upheld in any suitable models;
Provide a detailed legal analysis of e-Lending

Animal/Human Exhibition - UQ Art Museum until Sunday July 22

Published: Mon, 2012-05-21 14:06 by Pauline McLeod

From UQ News:

Check out the latest Animal/Human exhibition at the UQ Art Museum. The exhibition, running until Sunday, July 22, presents a selection of works by contemporary Australian artists that explores our complex, contradictory and sometimes contentious relationship with other species. Their work variously touches on the psychological, ethical, philosophical, scientific and cultural parameters of the relationship. For further details, click here.

Celebrating International Art Week... Oxford University Press - free three month trial to Cyberschool members

Published: Mon, 2012-05-21 12:54 by Pauline McLeod

To celebrate International Art Week, Oxford University Press would like to highlight a key secondary Art resource, Oxford Art Online.

This online art resource encompasses all aspects of visual arts, topics and thousands of searchable images made available through Oxford's partnerships with museums, galleries.
Outstanding reference works include The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Explore the expanding range of content in Oxford Art Online focusing on Australian artists. Key artists featured include:
• Anne Zahalka, photographer
• The Kingpins, performance, video, and installation artists
• Paddy Bedford, Australian Aboriginal painter
• Patricia Piccinini, installation artist
• Robert Hunter, painter
• Rosemary Laing, photographer
• Sir Sidney Nolan, painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and stage designer

We also offer key thematic guides including those on Australian contemporary art, 1995-2010, Australian biennale and art exhibition space boom, Art market in Australia 1995 - 2010, Photography, and Aboriginal Australian contemporary art, 1990-2010.

Content is updated 3 times a year.

Cyberschool members who register now will receive three month free trial access.

To register for a trial please contact Cyberschool or register your interest at http://www.library.uq.edu.au/schools/dbasetrial.phtml

Cyberschool Web Page - New Format

Published: Mon, 2012-05-21 11:16 by Pauline McLeod

We are moving the Cyberschool pages over to a new format in the next few weeks and are looking at the information that we currently provide to schools.

To that end we require some information from the members.

1. We understand that there are vast differences between schools with regards to how students access databases. Many schools provide their own intranet and students can access their logins via that secure password only access, whilst other schools access directly through the individual vendors' pages or through the Cyberschool login page. We need to ascertain how many members are actually using the database login page provided by Cyberschool http://www.library.uq.edu.au/schools/cyberdbases.html. If you are a school that uses or depends upon this page can you please let us know via email cyberschool@library.uq.edu.au

2. We are moving to using the blog http://www.library.uq.edu.au/blogs/cyberschool as a main form of communication. All information, except commercial in-confidence pricing for Cyberschool members, will now be conveyed via the blog. Please subscribe to the UQL Cyberschool Library blog feed http://www.library.uq.edu.au/blogs/cyberschool/feed so that you do not miss out on any information.

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